tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post8660985272537426269..comments2024-03-28T09:06:06.709-05:00Comments on Every goddamn day: 03/28/24: Just another gravel barge....Neil Steinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-37512881248538372232016-05-11T06:15:07.833-05:002016-05-11T06:15:07.833-05:00Maybe you need a better computer. And it can't...Maybe you need a better computer. And it can't be "most of the time" -- my column only runs in the paper three days a week. I'm not happy about it either, but they pay for the columns, they deserve to get the clicks. Have you considered being patient?Neil Steinberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-29094787087384987282016-05-10T21:51:58.191-05:002016-05-10T21:51:58.191-05:00so you could once come to this blog and read your ...so you could once come to this blog and read your musings. now most of the time click here to read more appears half way through the colomn redirecting me to the suntimes sewer of a web site. everytime i go to the ST site i get a little pin wheel spinning around on my screen my computer slows i have to turn it off and let it reboot. just not worth it. FMEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06829632906445535928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-31930351321336313862016-05-10T16:17:32.833-05:002016-05-10T16:17:32.833-05:00Mr. Google advises that the chunks of rock salt us...Mr. Google advises that the chunks of rock salt used to make the brine were called "corns."<br /><br />A famous experiment in the psychology of perception had subjects view a picture of a white man menacing a well dressed black man with a knife. Asked later which one held the knife even black subjects tended to say the black man.<br /><br />Old joke about how we often process what we see and hear. Tourist on 57th Street in Manhattan asks a man carrying a violin case how to get to Carnagie Hall. The answer: "practice, practice, practice."<br /><br />Less familiar: Two gay guys dining in a New York restaurant watch a beautiful woman enter and proceed to her table, and one says, "Gee, Frank, do you ever find yourself wishing you were...a lesbian?"<br /><br />Tom EvansTomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09641357239788323783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-12941987870486464972016-05-10T14:30:33.568-05:002016-05-10T14:30:33.568-05:00Another personality trait that can cause us to han...Another personality trait that can cause us to hang onto misinformation is our own pride. I used to have the strange notion that corned beef came from cattle that were fed an exclusive diet of corn. Discussing the product with a homeless person, of course an argument ensues. I'm a mister know it all, and a homeless person no less, is not going to correct my understanding of the world. She just took out her phone puts it on speaker, calls the local Jewel, requests the meat department, and asks the butcher how corned beef is made. Now I know corned beef is created when beef is soaked in brine. It is passing strange they way people can continue to cling to bizarre ideas against all contrary evidence.Berniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17157600812959885192noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-32203296148557256992016-05-10T07:10:32.456-05:002016-05-10T07:10:32.456-05:00Being in the habit of exercising early in the morn...Being in the habit of exercising early in the morning without wearing my glasses, I am more prone than most to seeing things that aren't there: man with dog that turns out to be a post and a fire hydrant; lovers embracing that turn out to be a couple of bushes waving in the wind; aircraft in the distance that turn out to be light poles a block or so away. Moreover, the illusions for a few seconds take on a life of their own: the man with the dog is wearing a Sox hat and the dog is a lab; the couple are a long-haired male and a short-haired woman; the plane is wriggling its wings to stabilize its airport approach. So much is added, assumed and embellished. If I like Donald Trump's forthrightness, everything he says is certifiably true, because it's "honest." If I hate his crudeness, everything he says is by definition a nonsensical lie. Hillary is a bit different: either she should be shot or canonized would be logical, but even those of us who support her have been influenced by the power of incessant negative publicity to question her sincerity. Maybe that's a good thing, but I doubt it.<br /><br />john tatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10088632798195131329noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-70268874025693003102016-05-10T06:46:49.747-05:002016-05-10T06:46:49.747-05:00What is sand but crushed gravel?What is sand but crushed gravel?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04541828632284556589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-5710945790816529982016-05-10T05:53:51.311-05:002016-05-10T05:53:51.311-05:00Regarding the political landscape, it appears that...Regarding the political landscape, it appears that the pile on the barge is actually manure.Baruchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10568908951400103413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-87571058619369343072016-05-10T03:27:10.852-05:002016-05-10T03:27:10.852-05:00Most likely going to Prairie Materials at Chicago ...Most likely going to Prairie Materials at Chicago & Halsted.<br />They get at least one barge of gravel & one of sand a week.<br />Stand on the Halsted bridge & you can see it.<br />The barge's markings indicate it's from Material Service Co., which sold off its concrete supply company to Prairie & Ozinga years ago.Clark St.https://www.blogger.com/profile/09634234069783123180noreply@blogger.com